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RADIO BROADCAST
ment our own amazing interest in phone and Morse Code broadcasting. So a bit of background is in order: The regulations now governing international radio communication were drawn in 1912 at the London Radio Telegraphic Convention, and were promulgated by President Wilson on July 8, 1913. Next, in Paris, during and following the war, there were various inter
conference has been doing, and threshed out wave and other problems. It also drew up its recommendations. These were published in a Government document and the committee expected them to be pushed by our Government, since they had been unanimously adopted and were approved by the War, Navy, and Commerce departments.
But at the 1921 Paris International Confer
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AT THE RADIO CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON
Reading from left to right in the front row Secretary Hoover, Mr. Will Hays, then Postmaster General, General George O. Squier chief signal officer U. S. A., Congressman Wallace H. White Jr., Swager Sherley formerly chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives, the first radio lawyer. In the second row behind Secretary Hoover is Dr. Louis Cohen, in the doorway between Postmaster General Hays and General Squier is Mr. E. H. Armstrong the discoverer of the "feed back" circuit, and the second figure to his left is Dr. Alfred Goldsmith, the Secretary of the Institute of Radio Engineers
national radio conferences between the military and naval representatives of the Allies, which conferences dealt with wave allocations and scores of other technical problems, and, of course, had no concern with public broadcasting of the kind that is now our favorite indoor sport.
Next came a preliminary Inter-Allied conference in Washington, in 1920. At that conference were the five principal Allied Powers. It covered the subject of communications generally, including not only radio but wire and cable communication too, and in that respect it made a departure.
Now, mainly in preparation for this preliminary conference, which was to formulate a programme for the main conference to meet in Paris in June, last year, in March, the previous year. Secretary Alexander appointed a committee which held meetings, much as the present
ence the American report was not made the basis of action by the American delegation. It was vigorously supported, in the meetings of our delegation by some of our delegates, notably Dr. J. H. Dellinger, against radically diflferent recommendations by the military and naval representatives composing the majority of our delegation. The upshot of the situation was that our own commercial and private radio interests came from the Paris Conference disgusted, emphatically of the opinion that it had been a military show with all too few privileges accorded commercial and private aspirations. And the disappointment and wrath of our commercial and private interests was all the more intensified because an agreement on a Government policy had supposedly been reached on all controversial matters through the deliberations of the Alexander Committee that had met early in